Anyone for Wednesday Night Football?
One of the strangest weeks in Big 12 football history begins tonight. That’s right, tonight.
Kansas State plays at Louisville tonight, courtesy of ESPN. Then it’s West Virginia at Colorado on Thursday, then Baylor at Connecticut on Friday night. All before Saturday, the traditional day of college football.
We can thank primarily ESPN and schools’ desire to reach the spotlight. And I do mean thank. It’s great for football fans, to have games spread out so you can see more.
But it’s a little like that old Al Bundy joke; car-pooling should be mandatory, except for me. As long as some other school is playing on Wednesday night, it’s great.
But OU and OSU wouldn’t want to do it. The Sooners haven’t given in to television requests to move days of the week, other than those old Nebraska games on Thanksgiving Friday. The Cowboys played Nebraska on a Thursday night season opener in 1995 but have rejected other chances.
Non-Saturday football is bad for the paying customer, the fans who come to the games and pay the freight. It’s good for the rest of us.
-------------Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel. Visit Berry's website here.
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I totally agree.